Ahhh perfect!

pd-$0-xy.pd was on the right track! (for some reason I figured it should be at the biggining as to not nessesitate makefilename!)

Thanks for the help.

Do you have a link to the document explaining the supported messages and receives? (for future reference!)

Ben

----- Original Message ----- From: David McCallum 8dngm@qlink.queensu.ca Date: Friday, May 9, 2003 9:43 pm Subject: Re: [PD] "vis 1" messages

Ben,

    Here I just fixed it for you and sent the changed 

version. If you don't understand what's going on let me know.

    Oh, I don't know what the "editmode" command that you 

have in your patch is supposed to point to; I just pointed it to the graphics portion of the patch (which I've stuck in a subpatch). If you want it to apply to the processing portion of the patch you may want to further nest everything in a parent subpatch and have the editmode point to that parent. Once again, let me know if I'm not communicating this very well...

    I've been doing a lot of abstraction work like this, so I 

use this trick all the time. If it helps you should check out the abstractions I'm distributing on my site, they might provide other insights...

    I see you've been talking to Matt ;), Chalmers hasn't 

given me any indication of when they're going to accept me (why wouldn't they? :) So I wait with baited breath...

David

At 21:18 09/05/2003 -0400, bbogart@ryerson.ca wrote:

...

Hey David,

Its being sent from inside the abstraction.

I'm not sure about your suggestions, I can send the message to pd-

xy.pd

...

(where xy.pd is the filename of my abstraction) sending to the

receive

...

makes all instances of the abstraction visible. What receive can

I send to

...

in order to only open the abstraction who receives the signal to

generate

...

that message?

; pd-xy.pd vis 1

is my message

I tried $0-xy.pd vis 1 / pd-$0 vis 1 / pd-$0-xy.pd vis 1 / etc...

Here is my patch for clarification.

Ben

PS: When do you hear about getting into Chalmers?

. . David McCallum . Music wants to be free . http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta/ .